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Between an Animal and a Machine Stanisław Lem's Technological Utopia Malgorzata Kowalska, Paweł Majewski
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Majewski, Paweł.
- Majewski, Paweł, Author.
- Series:
- Modernity in Question Series
- Modernity in Question 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lem, Stanisław.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (246 p.) , EPDF
- Edition:
- 1st, New ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Frankfurt a.M. PH02 2018
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Paweł Majewski is Associate Professor at the Institute of Polish Culture at the University of Warsaw. His main areas of research are: influence of writing on the intellectual and cognitive processes in the human mind; history of communication; bias of alphabetic writing as a vehicle of cultural communication.
- Summary:
- The subject of this book is the philosophy of Stanisław Lem. The first part contains an analysis and interpretation of one of his early works, The Dialogues. The author tries to show how Lem used the terminology of cybernetics to create a project of sociology and anthropology. The second part examines Lem's essay Summa technologiae, which is considered as the project of human autoevolution. The term «autoevolution» is a neologism for the concept of humans taking control over their own biological evolution and form in order to improve the conditions of their being. In this interpretation, Summa is an example of a liberal utopia, based on the assumption that all human problems can be resolved by science. Various social theories, which can be linked to the project of autoevolution, are presented in the final part.
- Contents:
- Philosophy of Stanisław Lem - Lemology pure and applied - Dialogues - Cybernetics as an anthropology - Summa Technologiae - Technology as Lifeworld - Autoevolution and posthumanism
- Notes:
- Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
- Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
- Description based on print version record; resource not viewed.
- Access Restriction:
- Unrestricted online access
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